Also I'm sorry about the delay. Computer problems once again. I'm working on other chapters right now.
Recap: Naruto has left Konoha, created three siblings out of Shadow clones with the help of kyuubi. Had a run in with Zabuza and two Konoha Nin. Met up with Tayuya after spending a little bit of time in Oto. Stumbled upon a lost village and all of its secrets and saved the young couple of Kaguya Kimimaro and Tsuchi Kin from the horrors of Kiri. Naruto still ignores Kyuubi who periodically tries to talk with him and Sasuke and Hinata have given an eye to the hidden Cloud after being kidnapped and joining the village. Now Naruto, Tayuya and his siblings head into a rocky wasteland while Sasuke and Hinata continue training within Cloud who is hard at work with the Byakugan and Sharingan research. Kimimaro and Kin have also joined Konoha.
Now here's chapter seven of Companionship and Clones.
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Chapter seven
Cloud's new clan
"Niiii-Saaaaan! We've been walking forever! Where are we!?"
"Shut it! You didn't even walk most of the way idiot!" yells Tayuya as she bops Reiven on the head.
Akira doesn't say anything. She was busy drawing seals on her hammer, and on her arms and legs.
Naturo agreed with Reiven. They had been traveling for two weeks straight and still there was no sign of a village. He felt like suggesting they turn around.
Naruto sighs and pulls Tayuya off of the winged boy.
"Alright lets take a break. We need to hunt again anyway."
Reiven smiles and spreads his wings.
"I'll do it!" he says excitably as he grabs a kunai and leaps up and vanishes into the sky.
Naturo sighs and says, "You just had to give the hyper one the wings huh Nii-san?" Naruto just smiles warmly and rubs the back of his head.
Tayuya grabs her flute and booklet and heads off to a nearby rock. "I'm gonna practice with this for a while."
Akira was still working on her seals.
"Hey Akira what are you doing?" asks Naturo.
Akira looks up from her scroll and says, "I've found a way to get really strong and fast. They're called gravity seals and I'm drawing them on my arms, legs and chest."
Naturo raises an eyebrow.
"Do you want me to draw some on you too?"
Naturo smiles and says, "Sure why not?"
Naruto decided it was time for more sword practice so he does the shadow clone and prepares to battle. He draws his sword and prepares to take on his opponents, which was now at six.
"Come!" he says. The clones respond by charging.
For the next three hours the air was filled with the sounds of Naruto fighting his shadow clones, Akira and Naturo reading more about the gravity seals out loud and Tayuya practicing with her flute and slowly getting better. Everyone was deeply enthralled in what they were doing so it was no surprise that when Reiven returns with five rabbits impaled on his scythe no one notices until he speaks.
"Hey guys I'm back!" he says loudly as he deactivates his wings. Tayuya looks up first.
"It's about freakin time jeez!" she does a few hand signs and spits a small stream of fire into a pile of wood until it catches fire.
"Now give those to me so I can clean them!" Reiven does as he is told and looks over at Akira and Naturo. He then looks over at Naruto who was battling three shadow clones. He quickly decides that whatever Akira and Naturo were doing was far more interesting since Tayuya was currently using his scythe to gut and skin rabbits.
"Hey what are you doing?" asks Reiven.
Akira and Naturo look up and say, "We're trying to find the instructions to activating the gravity seals."
"Gravity seals?"
"Yeah. They're these special drawings that are supposed to make a person very strong and fast in time but we can't find the instructions on how to activate them."
Reiven nods. "Sounds cool so, do you mind if I look too?"
"Of coarse not Reiven Nii-San. If you want I can draw some on you too."
"Cool lets do it!"
After about thirty minutes Naruto collapses next to Tayuya as the rabbit meat sizzles above the fire.
"Get enough training done Blondie?" asks Tayuya with a smirk.
"Yeah (Huff) I'm really (Puff) improving! I can (Huff) take on six clones at once!"
Tayuya grins. "I'm gonna have to spar with you one of these days."
"You're on!"
Just then Reiven says, "Hey I think I found them!"
"Really? Where at let me see."
Akira leans over her brother's shoulder and begins to read out loud. "Controlling the amount of severity of the gravity seals. In order to get the ideal weight simply focus a bit of chakra into the seals, careful not to focus too much. Hey you did find them Reiven! Now we can begin!"
Reiven nods vigorously. "Okay so all I have to do is focus a bit of chakra right?" Reiven then begins to do just that. A second later he smashes into the ground.
"Ack! Heavy!"
"Baka I said a bit of chakra!"
"Stupid girl! I did use a bit of chakra!"
Akira gets in Reiven's face. "No you didn't otherwise you wouldn't be eating the rocks idiot."
Reiven glares and struggles to stand. He fails.
"Hurry up and tell me how to change it!"
Akira smirks and says, "No. Figure it out yourself or get used to it."
Reiven screams "I'll get you for this stupid girl!!!"
Akira merely smirks and focuses a bit of chakra into her own seals.
BAM!
"Hahahaha! Who's the idiot now!?" yells Reiven in triumph as Akira struggles against the sudden weight change."
"Not a single word!"
Reiven laughs a bit causing Naturo to sweat drop. "I'm beginning to regret my earlier decision."
Akira struggles to look up at her brother. "Well it too late now. If you don't activate them they'll activate on their own so you might as well join us down here."
Naturo sighs and tries to focus a tiny bit of chakra into the seals. He was successful in not falling down but he was still very hunched over and struggling to move.
Naruto and Tayuya were staring at the three.
"Hey Tayuya do you know what they just did?"
Tayuya nods and says, "Gravity seals. It's a special weight training designed to increase speed and strength over a period of time. How heavy you become depends on how much Chakra you focus into the seals."
Naruto nods.
"But what surprises me is that they didn't focus a lot of chakra into the seals so they shouldn't be in the condition they're in now."
"That's because their chakra is demonic and therefore more potent then human chakra," says Kyuubi to Naruto who although didn't answer back was actually listening.
"Um maybe its because their chakra and mine for that matter are different?"
Tayuya shrugs. Eh whatever all I know is they better hurry up and get used to the weight or their food is gonna get cold."
Naruto shrugs and sits down next to Tayuya.
"Hey Nii-San a little help!"
"Sorry Akira Nii-Chan but ya hafta get used to the weight on your own. I can't help you," says Naruto with a warm smile before turning back around and grabbing a piece of meat and chowing down, ignoring the anger rants of three very pissed off former shadow clones.
"So are you gonna get the seals drawn on you too?" asks Tayuya.
Naruto grins and says, "Believe it!"
(Scene change)
"We have word of intruders on our border. Should we intercept them?"
"Of coarse. We cannot have intruders. Intruders are absolutely not tolerated."
"What should we do once we intercept them?"
"If they're ninjas kill them. If they're merely travelers instruct them to turn around. Forcefully if need be."
"Roger that."
"Good now go!"
"Hai!" And with that three unknown ninjas melt into the ground.
(Scene change)
The research went by a lot smoother then expected. Cloud had successfully managed to create a new doujutsu by combining the Sharingan and the Byakugan.
They had tried many times and failed over the last month but the scientists worked tirelessly. Finally they were able to do it by taking out the eyes of a normal person and splicing it with the genetic codes of the Sharingan and Byakugan, therefore changing the eye.
The Raikage was ecstatic. This new eye, Shiyakugan as she called it was pale lavender in color with no center pupil and three blood red tomes and had all the powers and abilities of Byakugan and Sharingan. The scientists made sure of that. Right now they were currently standing above the unconscious figure of a young boy of about four years old. The boy was on an operating table with many different odd-looking machines that one would assume belonged in a torture room at first glance. Many were attached to the boy's empty eye sockets and another was holding his new eyes above his face. There were also two vials of blood. One labeled Hinata DNA and the other labeled Sasuke DNA. A small needle machine was currently drawing a tiny bit of blood from each vial and dripping it into the boy's Eye sockets, afterwards a few other machines would begin to glow blue as they placed the DNA in the right spot.
Numerous computers showed Vitals, Blood pressure, DNA readings and stabilization.
"Alright before we insert the eyes we have to alter his DNA a little to accommodate the eyes if we are to keep his body from rejecting them," says the lead doctor.
"How so?" asks the Raikage who was drawn in with extreme interest.
"Well by using a bit of the DNA gathered from Hinata and Sasuke we can alter this boy's DNA to include the Shiyakugan. That way when he is old enough he can pass it on to his offspring. Simply implanting t like what that copy Nin Kakashi has done will not do."
The Raikage smiles and says, "Excellent"
"That reminds me Raikage-Sama."
"Yes?"
"Not that we aren't honored to be doing this but why are you using children instead of full grown able bodied ninjas?"
The Raikage smirks and says, "It was actually Hedeki's idea and a smart idea it was. You see with children their chakra coils aren't fully developed yet. Giving the new bloodline to a young child gives his body and the doujutsu time to grow and sync up with each other as their chakra coils adjust to the new accommodations. With an adult that won't happen because he is done developing and growing. That could result in a poor bloodline limit and even rejection by the body."
The doctor smiles. "Of coarse! That makes perfect sense! Why didn't I think of that?"
The Raikage smiles.
Just then a machine beeps and says, "DNA alterations complete. Subject is stable now. You can proceed."
The doctor smiles and says, "Good. Implant the boy's eyes right away."
"Hai."
A second later the machine holding the eyes drops slowly and carefully as it lowers the eyes into the sockets.
"Okay now we have to reattach the nerve endings and muscles."
"Hai."
The machines and the doctors begin the task of fully reattaching the eyes. They started out with the nerves and then went to the muscles. Soon (A few hours)
The eyes were fully attached and everyone was pleased to see the tomes and the pale lavender fade away revealing deep brown eyes.
"Operations success Raikage-Sama," says the Doctor with a smile.
The Raikage smiles as the machines leave the sleeping boy.
"Good." A second later the room fills up with more doctors and the room's walls slide away revealing numerous other operating tables.
"Call in the rest of the patients," says the Raikage cheerfully before turning to leave. The doctor nods and prepares himself for a very long and tiresome day.
A second later about thirty young boys and girls file into the room and pick an operating table.
"My my that's a lot more volunteers then expected."
"Of coarse. These children come from the orphanage. They were more then eager for an opportunity like this," says the doctor.
The Raikage smiles again and ruffles a smiling boy's hair.
"I look forward to seeing the results." And with that she leaves the doctors to their projects.
She quickly arrives at her office and pages her secretary.
"Yes Raikage-Sama?"
"I want you to call for Hedeki-San and his students."
"Hai."
A few minutes later Hedeki, Hinata, Sasuke and Yugito walk in. Hinata had white bandages wrapped diagonally over her missing eye and tied in the back where the rest of the material hung to her ankles in one long strip while Sasuke's eye was covered up by a plain black fitted metal plate that went back to his ear. They both looked rather mysterious to her.
"You wanted to see us?" asks Hedeki.
"Yes I just wanted you to know that the operation was a success and that the others are being worked on as well."
"That's great news Raikage-Sama."
"Indeed. I also have a question for Hinata-san and Sasuke-san."
The two mentioned children look at the woman in front of them. "Y-yes?" asks Hinata.
"I would like for you two to train the children once they are out of the hospital. You two are the only ones who can fully understand how the bloodline limits work and they will need to learn from the experts."
"Well I'm still learning how to use Sharingan as well but I would be happy to teach them all I know," says Sasuke.
" I-I would be honored to teach them Raikage-Sama," says Hinata softly.
The Raikage smiles and stands. "Thank you, you two."
"Its nothing. After all you're providing us with training right? It's the least we could do," says Sasuke.
Yugito looks over at the two and smiles.
The Raikage walks over to Hedeki and Yugito and says; "Now for you two, I want you to search the village."
"For what Raikage-Sama?" asks Yugito.
"Why for a suitable location for a new clan district of coarse."
Hinata and Sasuke widen their eyes.
Hedeki smiles and says, "We'll get right on it," before vanishing with Yugito.
Once Hedeki and Yugito are gone the Raikage looks back down at Sasuke and Hinata.
"I know you two are on your own mission and I find it very noble, (Rubs Sasuke's head) and romantic (Winks at Hinata causing her to blush) but…"
"You want us to become the heads of the new clan right?" asks Sasuke causing Hinata to widen her eye.
"Precisely. Since you two will be helping them master their abilities it is only right that I give the title of clan head to you two. You can refuse if you like. I would completely understand if you want to return to search for your blonde friend."
Hinata nods and Sasuke rubs his chin in thought. After a minute Sasuke speaks first.
"I'll gladly become leader of the new clan."
Hinata nods and says, "M-me too on o-one condition."
"Yes?" asks the Raikage trying to hide her growing excitement.
"Will Sasuke-san and I have complete freedom to leave the village periodically in search of Naruto-kun? We promise to completely join Cloud and lead the new clan if you grant us this one thing."
"Of coarse Hinata-Chan. You and Sasuke will have complete freedom to leave whenever you want. You won't even be forced to stay with cloud should you decide you're tired of living here or something. Just don't betray our secrets to another village and make sure to return routinely to check up on your clan."
Hinata and Sasuke smile.
"Thank you so much Raikage-Sama."
"Its nothing. Especially after what you two have given us." The two children smile.
"Now go on get out of here," she says with a warm smile. The two children nod and prepare to leave.
"Oh wait I almost forgot to asks the two most important questions."
"Yes?"
"What will be the name of the new clan and what will your new symbol be?"
Sasuke and Hinata freeze.
"You mean you want us to decide?"
"Of coarse."
Hinata looks at Sasuke and says, "H-how about Hyuchia?"
"Hyuchia huh? I can live with that. And the symbol for the Hyuchia clan will be a lavender colored sun with three red tomes in the center," says Sasuke.
The Raikage smiles and says, "Well Hinata and Sasuke. You two are now the proud leaders of the new Hyuchia clan. Don't worry I'll teach you everything I know on how to be a good leader."
The two children nod and leave the room, headed straight for a bright new future…
(Scene change)
It took three hours for Naruto's siblings to adjust to the weight enough to actually get to their feet and slowly make their way over to Tayuya and Naruto so they could eat. They were all highly annoyed. Even Reiven who made it a point to grab his scythe and grumble, "Its not a friggin roasting stick," and plop down heavily.
Naruto couldn't stop laughing.
"Why don't you put some of these things one you Nii-san?!" yells Akira.
Naruto chuckles and says, "Don't worry I'm not gonna fall behind you guys. I'll be putting on my seals tomorrow."
"How about right now?!"
Naruto shrugs and says, "If you have the energy then okay fine cause you're the only one who can do it right," he says to Akira.
Akira smirks and draws a kunai. She nicks he finger and instructs Naruto to remove his shirt and roll up his pant legs. Naruto does as he is told and waits patiently as Akira draws the seals on his body in blood. After about five minutes Akira says, "There now focus some chakra into them."
Naruto does as told and smashes into the ground barely even able to move.
"Crap!"
Akira and Tayuya chuckle while Naturo and Reiven laugh loudly.
"Yeah keep laughing! I bet I can get to my feet in less time then you guys did!"
"Yeah right!"
"It true! And once I do you're gonna hafta to fight me and five shadow clones with your scythe!"
"Deal Nii-San!"
And so for the next hour Naruto struggled to get to his feet and failed every time. After another half and hour he was actually making progress.
"Heh he's still gonna lose," says Reiven arrogantly.
He was surprised however when Naruto manages to get to his feet ten minutes later.
"HA! Now I get to kick your butt in a spar!"
Reiven glares but gets to his feet anyway. A bet's a bet and he wasn't about to chicken out. He grabs his scythe and Naruto grabs his sword.
"Lets hurry up and get this over with," grumbles Reiven as he takes up a fighting stance.
Naruto places his hands in the cross seal and gets ready to name his jutsu. Unfortunately he never got the chance because three ninja bearing the symbol Tayuya recognized as stone suddenly rose up out of the ground.
"Oh its just a bunch of children," says one of the men sounding slightly disappointed.
"You children are trespassing within the borders of the hidden village of stone. I'm going to have to ask you to leave."
"But we've been traveling in this wasteland forever could we at least rest up for a couple days in your village?" asks Reiven.
"No brats now beat it before I make you beat it." He the locks eyes with a glaring Naruto and gasps.
"Holy shit it's an accursed Uzumaki!"
"What?!"
"Grab them!"
Before Naruto and the others even knew what hit them they were tied up gagged and slung over the shoulders of the Iwa-Nin.
"Uzumaki bastard you're coming with us!"
And before any of the children could do anything the ninjas vanish with them."
"Heh heh what a prize. You brats don't know the severity of the mistake you have just made."
The children gulp while Kyuubi within is trying to get Naruto to take her chakra.
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Heh heh what will go down in Iwa? The next two chapters will surprise you. That much I'm sure of. Any way tell me what you think
